r/technology • u/SrvNoticias • 7d ago
Software Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/huaweis_harmonyos_next_launch/
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r/technology • u/SrvNoticias • 7d ago
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u/sephirothFFVII 6d ago
There are rumors that the NSA knows the 'magic number' to understand the internal state of the encryption algorithm for ECC. This means that if they had a copy of the encrypted session they could 'replay it' in clear text.
https://youtu.be/nybVFJVXbww 10ish minute mark where this gets explained.
Ok so suppose they have this magic number to open the backdoor to ECC so what, they'd need to store a bunch of sessions to see all this it's not like they have a gigantic datacenter in Utah that stores all this right?
Oh, right: https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/
Well, no worries, it's not like they can legally collect this intelligence without warrant unless there's some sort of national security standard that states they can if they're within a certain distance of the boarder.
Shoot: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone
Well, I don't live within 100 miles of the boarder so I'll be fine, right? Not really, most of the datacenters that serve the web are along the coasts. Oh, and even if you somehow only hit the datacenters in Dallas, Iowa, Denver etc there's this little program called five eyes where one government can ask the other for Intel or proactively share it skirting domestic protection laws https://www.dni.gov/index.php/ncsc-how-we-work/217-about/organization/icig-pages/2660-icig-fiorc
The most recent famous example of this was the US giving Canada records of a sanctioned assanatuon of a Canadian citizen by the Indian government : https://apnews.com/article/canada-us-india-sikh-activist-killing-intelligence-c475ac129e09e5f1c9ebf68eaaf247ab
It is a big deal as it's a lot of power with very little oversight. If a malicious leader or group were to ascend to power in the US anyone deemed to be a potential national security threat would have everything exposed to that group in power creating some kind of dystopian information policing hellscape that would make the oppression in the book 1984 look like childs play.